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Price of a Pint

One of the most important questions asked while organising or booking a holiday in any part of the world these days is

“Will i get Aids in this country?”

And a close second to that would be, ‘How much is it going to cost me to get completely trollied off my face’? Well someone on the wide expansys of the interweb has heard your calling and has put together a site that collects the prices of your average pint in various countries around the world.

Pint Price is a database of World Beer Prices. Use this site to find the best watering nation. Pint Price has also been described as an important economic iindicator… Help us complete the beer price database!

Good in theory you might say but what it actually is is a walter mitty’s guide to acting like shane mcgowan in a meth clinic, bottom line , a fucking disgrace!

The price of a pint in Ireland varies drastically from 1.85 euros to over a tenner. . horse flaps and toffee tosh is what i say to that! A nice idea, a nice site, just abused.

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The priesthood’s loss is our gain!

Mucho congrats to Darragh Doyle who won May’s Blog Post of the Month for his excellent post about commenting! A well written post and with screen shots for how to comment on different blogs he’s put it together flawlessly. Having only known of Darragh’s existence since Elly’s Tweet Up I have to say his blog is an exciting read, be it chasing down comedian’s for an off the cuff interview or up and coming actresses to see what metal she’s made of!

To any blogger comments are important, it’s like feedback that really justify’s and makes posting all that more worthwhile and it is an essential part of the blogosphere and Darragh captured that beautifully with his post!

Also on an aside note, it is a tribute to Darragh who is running a Blogger blog (as I did!) to have so many comments on his posts. Blogger is notoriously linked with the hassle that is involved in leaving comments and in my opinion stands in the shadow of WordPress’s commenting system. All you have to do is take a look at the volume of comments that people leave on his blog and it’s a testimant to the quality of his writing!

Visit his site today, visit it again tomorrow! Add it to your reader and add to your blogroll immediately if not sooner!

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Latest Addition

Here she sits my new pride and joy! Actually I say she but I’m not sure how you can tell . . anyway! Gateway M-Series notebook, all singing / dancing / gleaming! It’s a great machine and unlike my old laptop it runs effortlessly and without question! Well it is running Microsoft Vista so it does ask you questions like a curious 8 year old :

“Did you really want to run that program? Windows wasn’t sure if you sneezed and clicked by accident? Oh you did sneeze? Do you still want to run it? Maybe you should decide later if you want to run this program because you’re not in full health? Oh it’s only hayfever? Have you medicated? Well go on then, let’s run this program together just the once, you are my friend right? YES / NO / CANCEL”

Unlike my old HP Pavillion Series Laptop you don’t have to bring it out for dinner and drinks to convince it that it wants to use the internet. The start up for my old laptop involved the following sequence:

Power On
Make Tea (5 mins)
Double click Firefox
Let it Hang (7 mins)
Decide you want more sugar in tea (8.5 mins)
Press Ctrl-Alt-Del
See whats on telly (12.5 mins)
Once task manager loads up run Firefox again
Let it Hang (15 mins)
Firefox Loads but with no connection
Repeatadly clicking F5 and waiting for the wireless to kick in
Will I have more tea? Why not! (18 mins)
God I didn’t think Fair City was still on telly, that’s gas
Mozilla Start Page Loads(22 mins)
Try load twitter
Something technically wrong? (27.3 mins)
Hard time finding the F5 button as its worn down
What did I need to do online again? Ah sod it there’s a film starting

For anyone that’s interested here’s what was thrown in!

• AMD Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology TL-60* for AMD dual-core technology in a thin-and-light design; HyperTransport™ and AMD PowerNow!™ technologies and improved security with Enhanced Virus Protection**
• 2GB DDR2 memory for multitasking power; expandable to 4GB
• Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media; supports DVD-RAM; also supports Labelflash direct-disc labels using compatible Labelflash media
• 15.4″ WXGA TFT-LCD widescreen display with Ultrabright technology and 1280 x 800 resolution
• 250GB SATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
• ATI RADEON X1270 graphics with up to 256MB HyperMemory (total of local and shared memory used by GPU); high-definition audio (2-speaker support); HDMI connection
• Metal-style multimedia control panel provides quick access to and control of multimedia and other applications
• Built-in 1.3-megapixel Web cam makes it easy to chat with or send video mail to friends and family
• 5-in-1 digital media manager supports Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card
• 3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer
• Built-in high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g); 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector; V.92 high-speed modem
• Weighs 6.3 lbs. and measures just 1.5″ thin for portable power; lithium-ion battery and AC adapter
• Brushed metal keyboard surround and Pacific Blue finish for a stylish look
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1) preinstalled; software package included with Microsoft Works 9.0, Gateway BigFix, CyberLink Power2Go and more

What I <3 about it the most is, the oodles of hard drive space, the fact the egg timer is a thing of the past and that I no longer have to use a PCMIA card to use wireless!

Proudly brought to you by the downturn in the American economy, the fantastic exchage rate and Delta airlines! I salute you!

Help Firefox Create World Record

Firefox 3 should be up for release in late June and the people at Mozilla have very cleverly set up a unique buzz around the final release. They intend creating a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. You visit the site and ‘pledge’ that you will download FF3 on the release date and they will send you a reminder about your download date.

According to the map there are nearly 600,000 pledges to download FF3 and a healthy 1,769 from Ireland alone! I’ve been using Firefox 3 Release Candidate now for the past couple of weeks and have to say I am well impressed. With the use of plugins and add-ons i can’t see why anyone should use Internet Explorer anymore.

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Home Sweet Home

The week away just seems to have just flown in. It only seems like yesterday that i was delayed in Dublin Airport and then again in JFK Airport for countless hours and missed flights and dumb people at check in desks etc. The theme parks have been explored, experienced and mostly definitely enjoyed!

Instead of just blurbing on in one long post about the whole experience what i intend to do is disect it into smaller parts and work my way through what I thought of it all! I’m more and more determined to get back on the blogging wagon that i’ve almost certainly fallen off. Alas with some helping hands and supportive words and lots of life experience to blurb on about I should be back right on track!

Horned Biker

 

For every motor cycle enthusiast, if it isn’t enough that you get soaked and have to take 2 pairs of everything every where you travel to and not to mention the fact that everyone hates you because you hog lanes on the M50 and in the rear view mirror you actually look like one of those Traffic Corps Gardai, well this should surely make you the king of your peers!

“They are latex rubber covers that you fit on your open face helmet to make you look very different. They turn heads, create  comments & lots of smiles….and frighten old ladies, especially if worn with a skull fleece facemask and dark goggles.

Touch wood you get into an RTA and the emergency services have to surgically remove this stupid addition from your face. . .

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Blog Gremlins

As visitors have pointed out, the Blog is having a bit of a brain fart at the moment, something to do with bits and bobs and code and crunches. I will see to it at my return , but in the mean time, the Feed should remain to work  , not that there’s anything of late coming through on it.

I’m on my holiers at the mo’ but normal service should resume!

TwitterFone

TwitterFone is a nice little gizmo that allows you to ring your Tweets! Launched by Pat Phelan at the start of May it’s a nice piece of work and is worth a try out if you can hunt down a much sought after invite!

You hook your phone details and twitter account up with the marshmallow sky slick twitterfone site and bobs your uncle! Then once out and about and suitably oiled up you can merrily tweet till your hearts content with out having to touch your laptop / phone browser!

I’m amazed at how they can translate pretty acurately from speech to text and its then linked in your tweets with a small mp3 clip of what was said, which can prove to be a bad thing . And while it very much is a nice novelty i would be curious to see how many people use it constantly, i know the sign ups have gone through the roof and its a smash success but would wonder if this is the taste of the future. Blogging voice to text? Replying to emails ? Commenting on Blogs?

Only time will tell!

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Beer glorious beer

photo by Alexia 

Mucho thanks and back slapping to the following culprits for meeting up last night for pintage and self adoration (in alphabetical order. . )

Darren
Alexia
Darragh
Anthony
Davy
Phil

We started at the Market Bar which i’d never been to and was pleasantly suprised at how nice it was. With ample Free-Wifi and alcohol everyone was quids in and storys were spun, truths were told and photeees were taken, crotch photos were the order of the day *ahem*

Moving on we hit O’Neills for some late pints and as we tried desperately to get Anthony laid even more drunk we stumbled upon some fine American people who had a sense of humour and a mild tolerance for bullshit. What followed was more trying to get Anthony laid erm drunk and rickrolling, dancing, standing in the rain, airing discussions and bitching about blog-folk, enquiring about the state of the bar mans sister and finding out it now costs a fiver on the nitelink!

from the bits i forgot this morning i did however find this much out. . .

• If your the only person with a Geek badge at a table, people want to talk to you more.
• I talk too much.
• Davy loves his shaving.
• Phil has a big camera.
• Darren is too cool for school.
• Darragh is a true gent and has the neck of a priest.
• Alexia responds well to the command “earmuffs”
• I talk too much
• Americans talk too much (coming from me, i know)
• The N95 is a fine piece of kit
• Other boys in stripey tops find me attractive
• It’s nearly impossible to get anthony laid
• Anthony’s iTouch still is remarkably sexy
• Alexia always has the gossip
• Guest posting on twitter doesn’t work
• I can’t do impressions with accents
• The bus to the north runs 24 hours a day
• Americans love this country we call Europe and don’t like talking about the value of the dollar
• My fingers are too fat for the iPhone / iTouch
• Americans think PS I Love You is real life.

Really had a great night with a lot of laughs with a lot of fine people!

Hurrah!